Joe Wilson

The proliferation and potential use of weapons of mass destruction remains a grave and enduring threat.

It's the most difficult challenge.

I would like what the State's doing, essentially what the ESSA's doing: saying to local leaders, go out there and meet the needs and exceed the needs of the students in your area.

As I stated, there certainly is a role for the Federal.

It's a Federal issue.

It's actually both. It's all of us. The Civil rights is a local issue, it's a State issue, it's a national issue.

My goal today has been to highlight the importance of ensuring the State and local education agencies have local control when deciding among the myriad options available in delivering quality instruction and meeting the needs of all the…

But sadly, on subsequent visits across the country with my family, we saw the beginning of a free-market society, a modern society. But it has evolved now, sadly, as indicated, into an autocratic political system, a crony capitalist system…

The report discusses the importance of 'building upon defense support to civil authorities.'

It is critical that the United States maintain a dynamic national defense against the growing threat posed by biological weapons and naturally occurring diseases.

I call this hearing of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee to order.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank all of you for being here today. I appreciate the strong commitment of Chairman Mac Thornberry on acquisition reform and his persistence.

The success, again, of the Navy for decades should be replicated with SMRs, and I wish you well.

I want to thank Chairman Mac Thornberry for his promotion of acquisition reform, experimentation and agility.

This bill would end the clearly identified widow's tax or the dollar-for-dollar offset of payments.

The spouses of military service members are owed a debt of gratitude and appreciation.

I am grateful for your recognition of this problem and your efforts in correcting it, which is bipartisan as confirmed by the cosponsorship of this legislation by Ranking Member Susan Davis.

I appreciate his persistence in regard to the doctor, and that really should be so important for the relationship that we have with Pakistan.

Well, that is disappointing because I know, in my home State of South Carolina, over 60 percent of all electrical generation is clean, green nuclear.

It would actually be in the interest of the military, the government, whatever.

Thank you for your bipartisan leadership on this issue addressing a bipartisan alternative.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Director McLaughlin, thank you for being here.

Ms. Foley, again, thank you for your courage, and as a former reporter myself so many points you have made--that indeed in other conflicts the journalists have been noncombatants.

It is imperative that those who do business or provide funding to the Islamic State in any way are able to be accurately identified and that we have laws in place to deal with them.

It is critical that America and its allies have the necessary resources to cut off ISIL's funding from any source that we can.